I love me some candy. I'm always on the hunt for some new wild type that will keep me occupied while I'm working at the computer.

What are your favourite flavours (look at all the u's!) of candy? Least favourite?

I'm a big fan of the reds (strawberry, cherry, etc.) and blacks (licorice - sometimes it's actually a dark purple and you're left sayin' JACKPOT! for the delicious grape). Red is my favourite though - I like to dabble in orange from time to time. I very much dislike yellow...any lemon taste.

My favourite types of candy are wine gums and ju jubes. Sometimes I like the sour stuff like your standard sour key - but if I eat too much, I have a sore tongue the next day.

The question is always: What to do with the yellows? Do you eat them first and just take 'em like they're medicine? Do you save them for last and then eat as many as you can take before you want to barf? Do you just segregate all your colours from the get-go, and make your way around each grouping for a bit?

I usually eat them first, but this is where that strategy screws you: other people. When you start eating candy, you always make sure you're alone because 1) you're a 24 year old eating jujyfruits and 2) you don't necessarily want to share. At some point, however, a person will walk in on you, and then it's only socially responsible to offer them some. But at this point, having suffered through all the lemons and bananas and limes, you have only reds to give up. Oh the humanity!

I'm actually laughing hysterically right now. I know exactly what you're saying all-too-well. I've been burned before, LG! Burned I tell ya! My father does this to me all the time (he loves the reds the most) - and I tend to save them for last, ON TOP of eating all the yellows first.

So yeah, I make a point to eat my candy in isolation. I've been doing the flat-out grab bag strategy lately. Just stick your hand in there and eat whatever ya damn well get. It's an old-school philosophy that brings you back to your roots...when you were just a kid and didn't know any better. It's been working for me reasonably well, but I have ended up a couple times with about 85% yellows towards the end. It's fine during the go of things, when you're thinking "Man! I lucked out with this bag - hardly any yellows!!!" - but then at the end of it all, it's one after the next. That's a shitty feeling.

When you buy your candy in bulk, do you make a consorted effort to avoid yellows? I do.

I don't really have a favorite candy, I'll eat what is in front of me, but I don't really care one way or the other. I tend to like things with peanut butter, reese's, pb twix, etc. but not so much so that I won't eat other things.

Sour candy is only good in small doses. When you go to the variety store and get an assortment of 5 cent candies - and you've got your regular gummy-type candy mixed with sour-type...then it's fun. Because the sour ones are a special treat! Otherwise, one sour after the next becomes cruel & unusual punishment for the tongue. Waking up that next morning is worse than waking up with a hangover.